#195 – TOP 20 TECHNOLOGY – DRIVEN HARD TRENDS SHAPING 2018 AND BEYOND – DANIEL BURRUS

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burrusThere has never been a shortage of trends. The real problem for you is figuring out which ones will happen so that you know where to place your strategic bets. I have been publishing a list of top trends since 1983, as well as speaking and writing about their future impact, and if you have read any of my seven books or thousands of articles over the decades, you know they have been highly accurate. Continue reading

#195 – WATER GOVERNANCE: A REPEATING FAILURE – ANNETTE DAVISON

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AAA-150x150In 2016, we posed the question – ‘Is our Water Supply Governance Broken?’. We talked about waterborne incidents being a repeating occurrence and the need to have good evidence-based governance in place to assure good outcomes for our communities and ratepayers.

So what have we learnt since then? Have waterborne incidents and outbreaks stopped happening? Has water governance improved? Continue reading

#195 – PROJECT TRAIN WRECKS – MALCOLM PEART

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Malcom-Peart-pixThe term ‘troubled project’ is an oft quoted, possibly overly-used, but well-known term that is bandied about in a manner that possibly exaggerates any difficulty on a project.

“Troubled” has been variously defined but is, essentially, variance from predetermined values and trends in terms of time, cost and scope such that the forecast for the project meeting its objectives is unlikely unless there is (immediate) intervention. Continue reading

#194 – LIFE AND PROJECT SUCCESS – WHAT EXACTLY ARE THEY? – MALCOLM PEART

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Malcom-Peart-pixThere are many articles on failed projects and why they ‘fail’ but one can only define failure if we know what is meant by success.  Typically, project success is about meeting the triple constraint of completion on time, in budget and to quality.  But is that all…just surviving is success but only the fittest survive! Continue reading

#194 – THE RECESSION IS DEAD – LONG LIVE THE RECESSION – JOSEPH PARIS

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Screen Shot 2018-02-03 at 8.50.24 AMThe competitive advantage for businesses in the 20th Century was centered around the efforts related to process excellence – making the processes throughout a business as efficient and as effective as possible. And this was accomplished using a variety of disciplines including (but not limited to) Lean, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, and so on. Continue reading